An Altruist Unsung
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She lived beside the old temple that has stood
For years on the rocky bank of the silent river
Flowing all through the lining greenery cover ,
The woods and the arable land rich and goo...
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Categories:
unsparing, life,
Form: Narrative
Mid-June Sizzler
...The air shimmered, a wavering mirage,
Heatwaves rippling through the afternoon,
A furnace blast, relentless and fierce.
Shadows retreating, thin as whispers,
Concrete burning underfoot,
Even t...
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Categories:
unsparing, spring,
Form: Free verse
Life Abandoned
...Life Abandoned
David J Walker
What of the abandoned baby
Tears hidden
Seismic cries choaked and cloaked
In an unsparing future
Whose voice speaks for you when
You are months away from ...
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Categories:
unsparing, abortion,
Form: Free verse
Eaten By Ants - Part 2
...luckily for our ambiguous plot structure
and the stern requirements of partisan doggerel
the ringing coin toss bounced then came up tails
and fortune directed that the box be opened
gingerly grip...
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Categories:
unsparing, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Midwife Pg4 Continue of Tater and Junebug
...With a deliberated ruse; she washed its tiny face with a soft washcloth.
With no resistance, she enfolded the wee infant into a swaddling cloth.
In the Autumn equinox, she placed the tiny form ...
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Categories:
unsparing, pain,
Form: Narrative
Our Bountiful God-
...Our Bountiful God-------------------
Our God is bountiful because
Unsparing free and liberal
Benevolent beneficent charitable
Our God is bountiful because
Creator hands on everything
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Categories:
unsparing, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, environment,
Form: Free verse
To the End
...Mind is racing
Limbs are aching
I feel the end is nigh
All alone in night unending
Time a torturous lie.
Brain fermenting
Thoughts fragmenting
Shatter in glas...
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Categories:
unsparing, 12th grade, angst, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Promises Uplifted
...beyond earnest vows
and doting promises
our love will last
forever and a day
yet all avid promises
are one day shattered
in spite of best intentions
sometimes I hear its thunder
it’s in th...
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Categories:
unsparing, cancer, death, health, longing,
Form: Free verse
My Snatched Blood
...Beneath the cold glare of the desolate night,
And from a thousand miles away,
I heard her cries and felt the fathomless depths of suffering
Tearing her wounded soul and bruised emotions apart.
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Categories:
unsparing, girl, pain, poverty,
Form: Free verse
A Valley Which Does Not Rest
...Count the dead
add the wounded
multiplied by the countless years of disarray
the total sum of lives without peace is astounding
living on with only memories of lost ones
dreams haunted by vio...
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Categories:
unsparing, children,
Form: Free verse
Done Fighting
...Like a mystical wight,
Ain't in a trance,
Nor experiencing delusions and phantasmagoria.
I live. I fight,
Fighting
Because the decision to be free
Is that which I took freely,
Yet, criticized ...
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Categories:
unsparing, freedom, success,
Form: Free verse
A Valley Which Does Not Rest
...Count the dead
add the wounded
multiplied by the countless years of disarray
the total sum of lives without peace is astounding
living on with only memories of lost ones
dreams haunted by vio...
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Categories:
unsparing, children,
Form: Free verse
Flat Tire Did Not Ply Deflating Psi Lance
...True add verse situation,
whereat me mission
trans send dint state didst ache
after yours truly nearly
did nearly break
chassis 'pon took drastic
over corrective measure,
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Categories:
unsparing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Negative Zombies
...Bloodthirsty,
Brain eating zombies,
In movies,
And on TV.
Is it a metaphor?
For how resentful people can be?
When they watch someone else succeed?
How we’re taught to pull each other down....
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Categories:
unsparing, community, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Everything's Alright
...I grew up on a farm
that was often boring, despite its charm.
As a form of detox
I loved to go on walks,
ignoring my mom's talks
for I knew she was scared, I'd come to harm.
It's scar...
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Categories:
unsparing, anxiety, care, farm, fear,
Form: Rhyme
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